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+1.00% on August 18
Verizon Stock Rises 1% as Downdetector Spike Meets an 8% Capital-Return Yield
Verizon Communications closed 1.00% higher at $48.54 on Tuesday as a fresh Downdetector search spike drew attention to customer outage reports. The reports were crowd-sourced. Their extent and cause remained unverified, and no fresh company confirmation of a broad outage appeared in the sources reviewed by the dateline.
Verizon investor dashboard
NYSE:VZ · cash returns outweigh an unverified report spike
Official close
August 18, 2026 · 4:00 p.m. EDT
August 18, 2026 · 4:00 p.m. EDT
YTD price return
+19.79%
Excludes dividends
Gross capital return
≈8.04%
Dividend + buyback target
Relative to SPY
+1.67 pts
August 18 session
30-session price path
Jul 8–Aug 18 · +14.35%Capital-return stack
Dividend5.83%
Buyback target≈2.21%
Annual dividend$2.83
Buyback yield uses the $4.5B maximum target and about 4.2B shares. It is not guaranteed.
Operating momentum · Q2 2026
184K phone net adds348K broadband adds
Analyst target range
26 analysts · Buy$44 low$51.56 consensus$71 high
Consensus price upside+6.22%
Targets exclude the 5.83% dividend yield.
Peer scorecard · August 18 close
| Security | Close | Move |
|---|---|---|
| Verizon VZ | $48.54 | +1.00% |
| AT&T T | $24.90 | +0.89% |
| T-Mobile TMUS | $182.75 | +1.46% |
| S&P 500 ETF SPY | $767.45 | -0.68% |
VZ volume: 14.4M, about 0.60× its 30-session average.
Outage-report context
Jan 14>1.5M cumulative reports; 10+ hoursVZ +2.10%
Aug 8>13K reports; voice service restoredNext session -0.06%
Aug 18Search spike; scope and cause unverifiedVZ +1.00%
Investor read: report volume has not produced a consistent stock response. Verified duration, credits and churn matter more.
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